マンドポップ

Also known as Mandarin popular music, mandapop, Mandarin pop

Mandopop or mandapop refers to popular music sung in Standard Mandarin. The genre originated from the jazz-influenced popular music of 1930s Shanghai known as Shidaiqu; later influences included Japanese enka, Hong Kong's Cantopop, Taiwan's Hokkien pop, and particularly the campus folk song folk movement of the 1970s. "Mandopop" may be used as a general term to describe popular songs performed in Mandarin. Though mandopop predates cantopop, the English term "mandopop" was coined around 1980 after "cantopop" became a popular term for describing popular songs in Cantonese. "Mandopop" was used to